People are not wrong when they say that forks are the new ICO's - it costs almost nothing to create a fork, even much less than running an ICO, since you don't have to spend money on ANN design, whitepaper, bounty campaign - and exchanges are very welcoming because more coins means more volume, and more volume means more fees - and the list of exchanges that support BCD gives a good idea what kind of a coin this Bitcoin Diamond is (spoiler: it's a shitcoin). The only advice I have to give to newbies: don't chase the hype, don't buy and hodl shady altcoins, keep your bitcoins safe and be very careful when you decide to expose your private keys to software other than official Bitcoin clients.